13th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2018

Ballot 2018

Neil Tesser (Jazziz)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Wayne Shorter Quartet, Emanon (Blue Note)
  2. Steve Coleman and Five Elements, Live at the Village Vanguard, Vol. 1 (Pi)
  3. Kurt Elling, The Questions (Okeh)
  4. Michael Musillami Trio + 2, Life Anthem (Playscape)
  5. Stefon Harris & Blackout, Sonic Creed (Motéma)
  6. Thumbscrew, Ours/Theirs (Cuneiform)
  7. Made to Break, Trébuchet (Trost -17)
  8. Jon Irabagon Quartet, Dr. Quixotic's Traveling Exotics (Irabbagast)
  9. Ambrose Akinmusire, Origami Harvest (Blue Note)
  10. Rudy Royston, Flatbed Buggy (Greenleaf Music)

REISSUES/HISTORICAL

  1. John Coltrane, Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album (Impulse!)
  2. The Art Ensemble of Chicago and Associated Ensembles (ECM)
  3. Gary Burton, Take Another Look: A Career Retrospective (Mack Avenue)

VOCAL

DEBUT

LATIN

Note: Thumbscrew vote only specified Theirs.